Chapter 165
Chapter 165
After Jiang Li returned to her seat, the father from the family of three from earlier held out the pair of 3D Glasses to her.
“Young Lady, do you want these glasses? If you do, you can have them.”
Hanghang’s Dad had probably picked up on the fact that Jiang Li wanted to buy the 3D Glasses.
When the mother saw Husband about to give away their son’s things, her expression shifted and turned rather unpleasant.
But with Jiang Li, an outsider, present, the mother only darkened her face a little and did not lose her temper on the spot.
Jiang Li took the glasses and accepted them with a smile. “Thank you.”
If someone was willing to give them to her, Jiang Li certainly would not refuse.
After all, there really might be some secret hidden in the 3D Glasses.
By then, the blood rain outside had basically stopped.
The sky gradually cleared.
Wearing the 3D Glasses, Jiang Li turned and walked into the plaza.
Behind Jiang Li, Hanghang’s Mom was complaining to Husband:
“That was our son’s. How could you just give it away without asking Hanghang first? I really don’t know what you were thinking. Couldn’t you at least ask the child what he wanted?”
“Is it really that serious?” Husband argued. “The way I see it, Hanghang suddenly started crying nonstop because of those glasses. Why keep something that creepy? So it can keep hurting our son?”
“…”
Jiang Li gradually walked farther away and could no longer hear the couple’s conversation.
Jiang Li was currently wearing the 3D Glasses.
But aside from making her look cool, this pair of 3D Glasses, with a red lens on the left and a blue lens on the right, did not seem to have anything special about them.
The amusement park Jiang Li saw through the glasses was no different from what she saw with the naked eye.
Jiang Li kept the glasses on and prepared to look for her first ride.
When she passed by the drop tower, the crowd on it was screaming and shouting in delighted surprise.
Amid the sounds of revelry was the painful pleading of a burly man with a rough voice.
But after only a second, the burly man’s sobbing cries turned back into excited cheering. “Woo-hoo!!~~”
Rule Five of the Hell’s Paradise Visitor Rules:
[If, amid a wave of laughter, you hear cries for help. Please pay them no mind. They may simply be your hallucination.]
Based on this incorrect rule, the burly man’s sobbing pleas were not a hallucination. They were real.
Was it possible that he was… experiencing something terrifying?
Jiang Li pulled her thoughts back.
With something like the drop tower, if there really was some hidden trick to it, the people up there would be completely unable to move.
It would be best for Jiang Li to choose an attraction that would not use a safety belt to restrain people in their seats.
Then, combined with Rule Six, the sky could have “intermittent Red Rain.”
To avoid being soaked by the Red Rain, the attraction Jiang Li chose would ideally not be outdoors.
After some selection, Jiang Li, still wearing the 3D Glasses, arrived in front of the 150-meter-tall Ferris wheel.
A long line had already formed in front of the Ferris wheel, and Jiang Li followed the crowd to the very end.
Just as Jiang Li was waiting in line…
A female college student passerby came over with her friend, chatting as they queued up, and accidentally stepped on Jiang Li’s heel.
“Ah, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to.” The female college student quickly took out a pack of tissues, pulled one out, and handed it to Jiang Li.
She said apologetically, “Use this to wipe it. I’m really sorry.”
“It’s fine.” Jiang Li took the tissue and wiped it casually, not particularly bothered.
“Huh? Girl, you…” The female college student stared at Jiang Li’s face in delighted surprise.
“Girl, you look so much like our country’s Chosen One! Oh my god, you look way too much like her!” The female college student’s eyes widened in shock.
As she spoke, she turned back and nudged her friend’s arm with her elbow.
“Hey, Da Yao, doesn’t she look like the Chosen One Jiang Li? I watch Jiang Li’s livestream all the time. She looks exactly like her!”
Her friend was more reserved, but after getting a clear look at Jiang Li, her expression also showed some surprise.
“Jiang Li’s three-day rest period has already ended. She probably isn’t in Huaguo right now, is she?” her friend guessed.
The female college student took out her phone, planning to open the livestream and check on Jiang Li as she cleared the instance.
“Wait, that’s not right. Why doesn’t my phone have any signal? Da Yao, check yours. Can you get online?”
“I don’t have a signal either.”
Hearing the two girls talking behind her in line, a trace of suspicion rose in Jiang Li’s heart.
The visitors in this amusement park… were they from Huaguo?
They weren’t NPCs from the Aberration World?
Jiang Li’s heart jolted in shock.
Her pupils contracted as she swept her gaze around.
So that meant the entire amusement park, the more than one thousand visitors here… were all living, breathing citizens from within Huaguo!
Just then, from the perspective of the 3D Glasses Jiang Li was wearing, lines of text suddenly floated into view.
-“Holy crap, isn’t that my sister??? Isn’t my sister in Jinlin? How did she show up in the livestream??”
-“Please help the people of Jinlin City. The number of missing people in our city has already exceeded tens of thousands!”
-“I can’t get in touch with my relatives in Jinlin either. What the hell is going on?”
-“Did a separate Strange Tale descend on Jinlin City or something?”
The bullet comments that should have appeared in the Live Streaming Room were now all being transmitted through the 3D Glasses right before Jiang Li’s eyes.
Just as Jiang Li was growing confused…
A built-in System voice rang out in Jiang Li’s mind, and in Huaguo’s Live Streaming Room as well.
[If Chosen One Jiang Li clears the Instance, all hostages in Jinlin City will be returned safely!]
[If Chosen One Jiang Li clears the Instance, all hostages in Jinlin City will be returned safely!!!]
After the System finished speaking, a rapid series of beeps sounded.
That frantic warning tone disturbed Jiang Li’s thoughts, and even more so, it threw the people of Huaguo into chaos.
Many citizens whose own personal interests were at stake had already erupted.
Especially the families of the hostages living in Jinghai City.
After receiving the news, they immediately gathered on their own and rushed to the entrance of the Intelligence Department, where they knelt on the ground and refused to get up.
“Please, Minister Xia, please, waaaah… I’m begging you, communicate with Jiang Li and make her choose an easier way to clear it!”
“Waaah, our family only has this one son. If Jiang Li chooses the hardest kind of clearance and fails, what are we supposed to do if my son dies in there, waaaah…”
“Exactly!! The amusement park is so dangerous. Every extra second inside carries the risk of death! Maybe by the time Jiang Li finishes all four attractions, our families will already be dead!!”
At the entrance of the Intelligence Department.
Elder Fan sat in his wheelchair, looking through the glass doors at the growing, increasingly agitated crowd outside. An indescribable feeling rose in his heart.
Elder Fan had his assistant push him to the entrance.
The circle of bodyguards standing outside all spread their arms, holding back the noisy, shoving residents.
“Listen to yourselves! What are you saying?!” Elder Fan shouted, overcome with emotion.
He angrily rebuked them, “You want Jiang Li to clear it at A Rank? That is forcing a young person to betray her country! Is that something a citizen of Huaguo should say?!”
Elder Fan was so worked up that spittle flew as he spoke, his entire face flushed red.
After Elder Fan’s roar, the agitated residents were left speechless, falling into a brief silence.
Just as Elder Fan was fuming, a voice came from somewhere in the crowd, breaking the stillness.
“Then let her clear it at S Rank! Make Jiang Li eat the Colorful Ice Cream! She can die without pain, and we can get our families back!! Am I right, everyone?!”
When the gathered citizens heard that suggestion, they all loudly echoed it.
“That’s right! Let Jiang Li clear it at S Rank! S Rank clearance is easy too!”
“Make Jiang Li eat the Colorful Ice Cream!!”
“Jiang Li’s parents are dead anyway. Even if Jiang Li dies, it shouldn’t matter, right!!”
The Foot-Picking Burly Man of the Dark Room, the representative of the Slanderers who had appeared before among Jiang Li’s options, saw that public outrage had already been stirred up. He immediately lowered the brim of his baseball cap.
Turning sideways, he squeezed out of the noisy crowd at the entrance with satisfaction.